“Le Canard Enchaîné” defends himself from accusations of abuse of corporate goods

André Escaro’s partner would have been remunerated for having “supported” him in his work as a designer, indicates the administrators in “a” edition that seems tomorrow.

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The chained duck could not be robbed in the feathers without reacting. Since the information of the complaint against X for “abuse of corporate goods” and “concealment of abuse of corporate goods” within the newspaper was revealed on Friday August 26 by Le Monde, the Riposte of the volatile was eagerly awaited .

“Reality exceeds the fictitious”, announces the title of the article published at the bottom of the “one” of the edition dated Wednesday August 31 and reached, as every week, in Parisian editors Tuesday after 5 pm. Signed by the “Administration Committee”, she strives to breach the fictitious nature of the employment of the partner of André Escaro, 94, historic designer of the newspaper and former administrator. Discovered by journalists of the weekly at the beginning of the summer, the complaint was filed on May 10 by one of their own, Christophe Nobili, 51, duck pen for fifteen years.

degraded atmosphere at the editorial staff

According to the administrators, the decision to “call on Edith” dates back to 1996, when the author of the Cabochons (small drawings) who punctuate “the duck pond”, on page 2, expressed the wish to take his retirement. “It is first reluctant, arguing that the accumulation of employment-retirement is then not authorized and, above all, that it now intends to move away from political turbulence …”, ensures the text on six columns, which adds that André Escaro also wanted to devote himself to his passions. “He will finally give in, provided that his partner, Edith, shoulder by chewing the work a little,” explain the authors. She would therefore have “read the press for him”, and would have helped him “to find the trick that makes the salt of the cabochons”-eight thousand were designed in twenty-six years.

Only the investigation “will determine if this assembly, which can, certainly, appear a little acrobatic, is attackable or not on the administrative plan”, underline the president of Editions Maréchal Le Canard Enchaîné, Michel Gaillard, the director of publication , Nicolas Brimo, editors Erik Emptaz and Jean-François Julliard, as well as journalists and administrators (since June 22), Odile Benyahia-Kouider and Hervé Liffran. The financial brigade investigators, who began to audition employees this summer, will be convinced by what looks like a “pan on the beak!”?

As for convincing the editorial staff, where the atmosphere was singularly degraded, that these vignettes had their malice to the companion of their author, it will not be easy. Even if “Escaro and Edith made their apron in June”, the case may leave deep scars.

/Media reports.